China’s expansionism poses ‘threat’ to India

The strategic importance of India — the world’s largest democracy and second most populous country after China — is increasingly emphasized in the foreign policies of Japan and the United States, which share a “free and open Indo-Pacific” strategy, an initiative the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe originally proposed in a bid to warn against Beijing’s maritime expansion. Kanwal Sibal, India’s former foreign secretary, talked about how much New Delhi wants to deepen its ties with Tokyo........